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101 Things for Kids in Las Vegas

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I fail to see how anyone could say this book is great. First of all if you live in Las Vegas like I do chances are the you already know the 10 things there are to do with kids here. Secondly many of the attactions are closed or have changes, the TI show is not as kid friendly as it once was, and the arcade as well as wet and wild have closed! Save your money and call the chamber of commerce they will give you all the information in this book for free!

Las Vegas has actively cultivated family activities for the past several years. However, while adult activities are easy to find (even hard to avoid), activities more suited for young visitors have been more difficult to locate. Carol Stout has remedied that situation for us all. Her book "101 Things for Kids in Las Vegas" provides more ideas for entertaining young ones than a family could do in ten vacations. Her vacation guide is well organized, easy to read, and full of surprises. I have been to Las Vegas many times over the years. I thought I knew all the hidden treasures that Las Vegas offers for children (or even adults who have tired of the Strip). This book doubled my options. It is a great resource. I recommend you buy it

The "reviewer" from Georgia inadvertently tells us more about HIS Vegas inclinations. His cruel, inaccurate, and utterly pointless libel against "101 Things for Kids in Las Vegas" is a waste of time and computer resources that Amazon.com should be ashamed of.

Carol Stout's book is a fine and useful directory. Wet & Wild thought enough of it to host a special book-signing event, to which KLAS-TV sent a crew to do a live news remote. Folks in Vegas are talking it up; initial reaction was uniformly positive.

Best of all, part of the proceeds go to charitable cancer support services.

It is telling that this "reviewer" opted to leave his name off.

Bobby Gladd, Executive Director, The WREN Foundatio

This book does a decent job of just mentioning a bunch of facts, but I found that other similar books such as Open Road Publishing's "Las Vegas with Kids" 2nd edition or even Frommer's book with the same title do a better overall job. One problem is that the edition that I received (last week) was published in 1999. The kid friendly aspects of Vegas has changed since then. Some hotels are no longer kid friendly (by choice). For example, the book speaks of the MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park as an awesome place, but it closed back in 2000. Also, the other mentioned books seem to give more advice about WHAT to do rather that just listing everything that's available. I want to know what to do and what to skip. I want advice, not just a listing of all available destinations. A chapter on suggested itineraries would have been nice. After buying this book, I found that I needed to supplement it with the other Vegas with Kids travel books.

I was recently in Las Vegas. The information contained in this book greatly assisted me in locating and enjoying attractions I simply would have missed otherwise. Dean B. Mosser

We bought this book last summer when we took our two sons to Las Vegas. The guide was very helpful, it gives lots of detailed info such as parking, prices, hours of operation, and numbers to contact. My only "complaint" would be that it is almost TOO much information, they have so many things listed, lots of off beat places, that if you are going there for a short time (like we were) and want to hit just the "big" places, you have to weed through a lot of information to get it. They should have it organized better. But it is definatly worth getting.

Thought the book was excellent!!! Used it extensively on my recent trip to Las Vegas!! (I don't even have kids). Anyone can find the casinos - but this book tells you were to find real entertainment!!!

I live 3 hours away from Las Vegas and never go because of my kids. I went recently to meet a relative for the weekend and fell in love with the city! Now I cant wait to take my kids...Ive booked a room for 3 nights in March and am looking forward to getting this book...I have the one for Southern California and use it all the time!

I browsed through this book to see what was available for kids in Las Vegas. It was good to see so much was there. Parents: Please read this book and keep your kids out of the casinos!